Used To Be Quotes - Page 21

• I used to be a die-hard defender of physical film, which I still am. I love shooting on physical film and I think it's great.

  Christopher McQuarrie

  Thinking, Shooting, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• I was told by journalists who can't publish it that there are in Mexico, close to the U.S. border, big areas that used to be devoted to agriculture that are now devoted to poppies. They say you can't get in there because they're guarded, first by the cartels, but also by the army, which goes hand in hand with the cartels.

  Noam Chomsky

  Army, Hands, Agriculture

  "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, chomsky.info. August 15, 2011.

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• What I find interesting and heartening, though, is that there does seem to be a shift in the subject matter being written about by women that is doing well in the culture. We're seeing more women writing dystopian fiction, more women writing novels set post-apocalyptic settings, subjects and themes that used to be dominated by men.

  Laurie Foos

  Writing, Men, Interesting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It used to be that I could talk to someone in Texas and nobody would hear about it. Now, the moment I open my mouth it's all over the world. The second I say something, guys in Germany know about it. It's basically a wonderful thing because more information is spread, but you have to keep your mouth shut.

  Paul Reed Smith

  Texas, Guy, Germany

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• Even though we know sexual assault is still dramatically underreported, I think women are much more empowered today than they used to be.

  Claire McCaskill

  Thinking, Today, Used

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Directors always used to be like the police to me - the enemy, the people to tell me what to do when I didn't want to do it. But I've lived with one for a while now and I guess I can put myself more in their position. You shouldn't be too sympathetic to them.

  Helen Mirren

  People, Police, Enemy

  "New Again: Helen Mirren". Interview with James Saynor, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 18, 2015.

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• [The NBA] used to be a small band of basketball groupies. Now there are a lot more corporate-type people working in the league.

  Jerry West

  Basketball, Nba, People

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Diplomats, France, England

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Every passing year brings us more past futures. Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin. It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.

  Bruce Sterling

  Latin, Dark, Past

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• Used to be in the old days, only the pulp writers wrote like machines. Now everybody is expected to be literary John Henrys. So in that context someone like me is an anomaly.

  Junot Diaz

  Machines, Anomalies, Used

  Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. September 30, 2012.

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• I enjoy spending time with other awakened people and feeling the shared vibration of that, whereas just fun for its own sake might no longer be quite so enticing as it used to be.

  Arjuna Ardagh

  Fun, People, Feelings

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• My album was recorded in Nashville. It used to be all about "We're from Texas, forget Nashville," well you'll never hear me say that. Nashville isn't bad as long as you're true to yourself.

  Cody Johnson

  Texas, Nashville, Long

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• Ever since I was a little kid, there used to be the Carnival that used to pass.

  Wyclef Jean

  Kids, Littles, Little Kid

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• All my legitimate jobs were embarrassing. I used to be stock boy at an Odd-Lot, making $35 a day.

  Method Man

  Jobs, Boys, Odd

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• My standards are higher than they used to be, I think. They don't necessarily have to make sense, but I certainly work on them a lot harder now -- partly because I do them on the computer, and I print them out and fix them, and print them and fix them over and over again, whereas in the early days I used to just scratch down a few things on a piece of paper.

  Dean Wareham

  Thinking, Scratches, Pieces

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• It used to be, people were afraid to talk about Social Security. Now, I think people should be afraid not to talk about Social Security and start coming up with some solutions.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, People, Social

  George W. Bush's speech on Social Security in Little Rock, Arkansas, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. February 4, 2005.

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• I used to be a mad hitter. And then I learned the longer you wait out the ball, the better you see it. And the better you see it, the harder you hit it. And the harder you hit it, the higher your average is going to be. And the higher your average is, the more money you're going to make.

  George Brett

  Average, Mad, Waiting

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• I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.

  Boris Pasternak

  Thinking, People, Revolutionary

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• But at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be! And with the passage of more time, some two or three hundred years, say, people will look back at our own times with horror, or with sneering laughter, because all of our present day life will appear so clumsy, and burdensome, extraordinarily inept and strange. Yes, certainly, what a life it will be then, what a life!

  Anton Chekhov

  Laughter, Reality, Years

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• As one of my older friends says, "Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be." Let's take a stab at it, anyway.

  Warren Buffett

  Nostalgia, Used, Older Friends

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• It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Purpose, Computer, Program

  Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1976). “A Discipline of Programming”, Prentice Hall

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• Barack Obama, you know has a lot of supporters here in America, but he's very popular internationally. It's quite interesting. This is a true story. It was in the paper. Barack Obama is so popular in the African town where his father was born, they've named a beer after him. That's true. Yeah. So next time you're in Africa, sit back, relax, and enjoy a tall, cold Barackelob Light. Good enough. Clearly not as popular a beer as it used to be.

  Conan O'Brien

  Father, Beer, America

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• One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.

  Gabe Newell

  Dog, Australia, Interesting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.

  Gabe Newell

  Impact, Order, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I used to be a hairdresser.

  Dee Dee Ramone

  Used, Hairdresser

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